An important point from classical theology - that God does not exist, or rather, surpasses existence, and so cannot be said to exist or not to exist. ...
that's because he considers himself, and behaves exactly like, a monarch rather than a constitutionally-appointed public official. And that is why it ...
Mike Pompeo in interview: The point is that it is a legitimate impeachment proceeding. It’s not a matter of opinion or individual judgement. It is bei...
I was a fan back in the day. A bit more than a year ago, I encountered some edibles which were just delightful and made me remember what I’d been miss...
Here’s an interesting idea from Asian studies: one of the qualities of a Buddhist sage is called ‘yath?bh?ta?’ which can be translated to mean ‘to see...
Trump is incapable of telling truth, because he’s lost all connection with it, or the ability to discern it, or to care about it. As a consequences, h...
I’m convinced that many of major cultural problems occur because of an insufficient or faulty philosophical outlook. The problem is, we’re all situate...
The whole issue with string theory is that it can’t be tested. There’s a bitter dispute going on in philosophy of science about this very thing - in f...
It’s a front page story on practically every journal of record today. The crisis is that the President has declared that he will not recognize the con...
I'm not talking about a military coup. I'm talking about Trump defying the Constitution and getting away with it. And it's happening right before your...
What if Trump wins the next election and declares himself President for Life? If he is allowed to defy Congress on this matter, then what is going to ...
I believe in America's role in the liberal West. It is a bastion of liberal democracy, and liberal democracy is under threat. A lot of people are cyni...
I don't think you have been following the news. I'm certain there is no way Trump will be able to stand as GOP candidate next year. He has just plunge...
If millions of people vote for such an obviously flawed candidate, then the reasons aren't political, but sociological. I'm not a 'centrist liberal'. ...
I don't see Trump as representing any kind of ideology or position. Rather he's an expert at exploiting the feelings of a large and mainly silent demo...
I know Hillary Clinton is hated, but then, guns are loved, and neither makes sense to me. From where I sit, outside America, albeit now with near and ...
Yesterday, I was freaking out, thinking 'if Trump survives the impeachment vote and gets re-elected, then surely that is the end of democracy and the ...
Johnson is an amiable buffoon compared to the Donald. But hopefully they will hold hands and ride off into the sunset. Article de jour on Trump. https...
never mistake anything Trump does for a strategy. It's only ever impulse. News of the minute is that Trump has declared he will fight the impeachment ...
Trump bows before strongmen. Erdogan told him to do it, and Trump did as he was told. Everyone associated - State Dept, Defense, Congressional Republi...
The White House has signalled that it’s going to fight the impeachment hearing tooth and nail, as expected. If the worst happens - and we can always e...
Only a percentage of what goes on here is actually related to philosophy. It’s just an online chat forum for quite a few of the people that sign up. T...
OK I will play along (but only so long as you refrain from your habitual sarcasm and gratuitous insults.) I have not heard the expression 'prescriptio...
It's only difficult because you - and only you - recognise your own arguments. You take it that when others don't want to play in your bathwater, that...
Seems to me that you tar a lot of people with that brush. Going back to your original claim that there is: This is one of your axioms, right? You say ...
There's nevertheless a fair degree of diversity of opinion throughout the US media. For instance, I don't believe that Jeff Bezos exercises editorial ...
Interestingly, the noun 'person' is derived from the Greek 'persona', derived from 'the masks worn by dramatists'. I think the theological idea of the...
Anyone that says anything less than adulatory about Trump gets the same treatment. They're all 'frauds' and 'traitors' and 'treasonous'. There are onl...
1. In respect of Buddhism (and Indic as opposed to Semitic religions generally) - they see themselves in terms of 'dharma', as mentioned above. Dharma...
There's a kind of modern myth that Buddhism is a naturalistic or scientific religion. This was especially popular during the early 20th Century, throu...
I’m interested in Gnosticism also. (I should mention, I majored in comparative religion although also did two years of undergraduate philosophy. But m...
Have you ever read the expression 'the divine Plato'? In Christian history, Socrates and Plato were designated as 'Christians before Christ'. Many wil...
As I said, I don't think you're mistaken, and many would agree, certainly a number of contributors have already said exactly this. But I'm trying to u...
Japan and China are Mah?y?na cultures. Vastly different. Of course now the everything is a jet flight or facetime away, then it all seems part of the ...
Buddhism has been in a continuous state of evolution and reform since its inception. If you read the Buddhist suttas, many are in question-and-answer ...
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